1.) Swamp Fox - 08/19/2015

Spill the beans on how you think they use them at different times.

Right now, I'm wondering what causes them to disappear in August from fields they frequented in July. We're talking fields that have done average or better than average, with the competing food source being standing corn that's a month or less away from being cut.

I made the mistake a year or two ago of telling someone that bucks will use soybeans when they're brown, and now I have to figure out if I want to use a Dremel tool, bolt cutters or a stick of dynamite to get his stand out of one of my spots...

Suggestions welcome....:wink

2.) Jon - 08/19/2015

[B]Around here[/B], the deer eat the beans as long as they are green. Once they turn brown/yellow, the deer seek other food sources. Generally,[B] in this area[/B], corn is starting to dry out in late August and will be harvested sometime in September when the humidity factor is low enough in the corn. The deer enjoy the corn when it is getting dry and will eat that more than beans. Once the corn is down and they have scavenged all the dropped corn from the bare fields, they seem to go back to the beans for a bit probably because there isn't much else to browse on.
The only idea I have for you to pry your friend out of your spot is to keep yer damn trap shut from now on.......

3.) luv2bowhunt - 08/19/2015

I agree with team mate Jon. Deer crush the beans in August here, then when they turn brown they leave them alone, focus on acorns I'm sure. Don't see them back in bean fields until late Fall when other foods are getting more scarce.

Around here they will prefer corn over beans until the corn is all gone and cleaned up. He's also right about your big pie hole. Keep it shut more often.........much more often............and type less too. Now that I think about it, with you, less is more.:wave:

4.) bluecat - 08/19/2015

I notice similar behavior as per above.

5.) Jon - 08/19/2015

I actually agree with the hated LUV2, on all accounts pertaining to this discussion......

6.) Deerminator - 08/19/2015

]'ve only seen the deer hit soybeans early. Later when the pods dryout The deer won't even go near the soy fields.

The pods turn into rattles and make one heck of a racket.

7.) luv2bowhunt - 08/19/2015

[QUOTE=bluecat;33967]I notice similar behavior about your pie hole.[/QUOTE]

Great mimes think alike I guess.

8.) bluecat - 08/19/2015

9.) Swamp Fox - 08/19/2015

All of that makes sense. It's too early for acorns here by a bit, but some of the corn has been cut....most is still standing.

I know a lot of people don't think deer will be in soybeans when they're brown, but they will be in them if you have a pinch point or travel corridor or secluded corner etc. that happens to include brown soybeans. And they will spend a little time in them, as well, as far as I can tell...They're not simply passing through.

Thanks for the insights, and keep 'em coming if you have more.

10.) Jon - 08/20/2015

It all depends on the fact that you can [B]NEVER[/B] say what deer will or won't do with 100% certainty. Ever have a deer travel with the wind on his back? Ever have a deer run wounded straight uphill? Ever have a wounded buck run away from water?
I think you're smelling what the rock is laying down.

11.) luv2bowhunt - 08/20/2015

The Burgess of Delaware hath spoken.


.......but I've never had a 'mortally' wounded deer run uphill more than a few yards. Just sayin'.


Forget the soybeans, just hunt.

12.) Jon - 08/20/2015

Probably because you haven't mortally wounded more than one...... DOHHHH

13.) Swamp Fox - 08/21/2015

[QUOTE=Jon;34005]It all depends on the fact that you can [B]NEVER[/B] say what deer will or won't do with 100% certainty. Ever have a deer travel with the wind on his back? Ever have a deer run wounded straight uphill? Ever have a wounded buck run away from water?
I think you're smelling what the rock is laying down.[/QUOTE]


That's a good point. One of my old jokes is that it's a good thing the wind changes occasionally, or else all the deer would have walked on out of here a long time ago, LOL

Some of the corn is starting to be cut now, but I can't hunt until the end of the month...Seems to me the corn keeps them busy for about two weeks after it's cut, and that's little on the long side, per field. I think it's only a week or so with soybeans. I've seen some fields where the combines leave a lot of food behind, but it seems like either lately--or in this particular area-- something causes the fields to be picked a lot cleaner than what I remember from years ago in other areas.

Maybe we just have more deer mouths to feed, LOL (although they say that in SC the deep pop. is down significantly from the late 90's/ early 2000's).